and more.
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Book Deals: Week of July 6, 2020
Holt takes two from activist and YA author Kimberly Jones, Thomas & Mercer buys a standalone thriller from Tess Gerritsen and Gary Braver, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of June 29, 2020
A “marginalized people’s history of labor in the U.S.” goes to One Signal for six figures, HarperCollins takes on a book about Prince Harry and Prince William, Willie Nelson and his sister sell a memoir to Random House, and more.
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Book Deals: Week of June 22, 2020
Princeton University Press wins a book on forgiveness in a 10-house auction, Dolly Parton’s “life in lyrics” goes to Chronicle, and S&S editor Denene Millner sells a multigenerational epic to St. Martin’s.
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Knopf Buys New Ishiguro Novel
Kazuo Ishiguro has sold a new novel, which marks his first since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017. 'Klara and the Sun,' narrated by "an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities," is set for March 2021, Knopf said.
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Book Deals: Week of June 15, 2020
Among the notable books that sold this week are a history of how black labor built America and a nonfiction work on black radical poetics by a National Book Award nominee.
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Book Deals: Week of June 8, 2020
Among the notable deals last week were the sale of a memoir from a PBS NewsHour correspondent, a novel about a woman who gives birth to an owl, and international bestseller Michel Faber’s latest novel.
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Estates Management Agency Acquires 12 Literary Estates
International Literary Properties, an estate management firm formed late last year with headquarters in London and New York, has acquired 12 literary estates, including those of Evelyn Waugh and Georges Simenon.
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Book Deals: Week of June 1, 2020
Among the big acquisitions last week were a history of four women who transformed the CIA and a sequel to 'The Henna Artist,' which was Reese’s Book Club pick for May.
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Book Deals: Week of May 25, 2020
Among the big deals this week are Robin Desser’s first acquisition in her new role as editor-in-chief at Random House and Delacorte’s purchase of Kelly Oxford’s YA debut.
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Bill Clinton and James Patterson Announce Next Novel Together
President Bill Clinton and author James Patterson will cowrite a second novel together, 'The President's Daughter,' to be published jointly by Alfred A. Knopf and Little, Brown in June 2021.
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